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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis de Sade

Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Change Death Existence Imperceptible Irrefutable Passage
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Error Victim Want
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADE

Deviation Doubt Mere Reason Stop Support Uproot Vanquish
I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destroy Everything Interferred Pleasure
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Complete Lot Submissiveness
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Delight Depend Everything Imagination Mainspring Mean Now Sharp Supr

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